On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:30 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Who takes care of sagenb.org nowadays? >> >> e.g. maintenance and security? >> > >> > Jason Grout took care of it for the last few years. He posted that he >> > will not be able to take care of it (and also >> > http://sagecell.sagemath.org/) recently, and asked for volunteers. >> > Andrey Novoseltsev volunteered to maintain sagecell, but *nobody* >> > volunteered to maintain sagenb.org. >> > >> > Unless somebody steps forward, it will be end-of-lifed soon-ish (or >> > least set to read-only mode for a while), since it's a risk to me... >> >> If nobody steps up to maintain sagenb.org by June 2014, I will change >> it to run in read-only mode for a few months, then shut it down. >> >> If somebody does step up to maintain it, we'll create a virtual >> machine, and they will have to setup everything to run in that virtual >> machine. >> > > I really wish I could commit this time, since I believe that this service > has been very useful and a lot of people have legacy stuff, but I know my > limitations (both in terms of nonexistent sysadmin skills and time) and > can't volunteer. > > Related: what is the status of the following: > > 1) *.sagenb.org for values of * other than this?
Basically the same -- it's all running on the same hardware. Some of the *.sagenb.org servers are part of an NSF project, and restricted to certain specific test sites, so they are temporarily going to remain. > 2) Publishing from the cloud? (In the sense of the "published worksheets".) I have some ideas about how to safely allow it. > This was actually one of the most important things sagenb.org brought to the > world. > > <riff> > Given that we have the ability to scrub the worksheets and only put the > actual input code up there, I would strongly support a "legacy page" which > re"publishes" code only (that is, just as text/css, no js) of the whole > stash of publishes worksheets somewhere like > sagemath.org/oldnotebookexamples/ or something. Given that > interact.sagemath.org hasn't (yet) taken off as much as it might, this is a > huge repository of actual working examples for people trying to use Sage > usefully. Which would be very useful for people thinking about using cloud > or Sage locally... it's amazing how many people still look at Sage examples > from its prehistory. > > In fact, it sounds a lot like quite a few things I've been reading recently > about OSS and building clientele/business. Not having it available, > including from links on help lists/ask.sagemath, has definitely hurt. > </riff> True. It's too bad there are so many malicious / abusive people out there, which just makes this technically more difficult.... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-notebook" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-notebook+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-notebook. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
